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Changed My Docs folder default location, why still in ALL

dorheldav

Posted 20 April 2008 - 08:49 AM

dorheldav

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I recently helped a friend move her My Documents Folder default location to her D drive (partition). However her C drive is still showing that under All Users the 4 Gb of documents is still there. Her computer is set up with 14 Gb for her Windows and programs and her pictures, music...documents go to D. Her C drive has 12% free space left but the properties for all the programming, including Windows adds up to roughly 8 Gb. When I click on Documents and Settings/All...still shows the 4 Gb of My Documents, even tho it's on a different drive. The All Users cannot be changed to a default location on D because it's a system file and so on.

How can I help her? Obviously her computer is not working well with only 12% free space. I suggested using a partitioning program to give C more Gb, but is there something more obvious that I am missing?

Posted 20 April 2008 - 09:13 AM

Take a look at the sync options, you can move everything to that folder on the slave and remove the files on the master.Or a few other methods are options, check them all out before deciding..

Another thing you can do is uninstall most programs you have on C drive and reinstall them on D drive. Create a folder and call it Program Files on D drive and you can install your programs there. Some you will need on the C drive, but most all the free programs can be reinstalled on the D drive. All the programs that you know that can be uninstalled and reinstalled will work from D drive.

cmpm

Posted 20 April 2008 - 09:40 AM

cmpm

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and i meant to say that the reason to make a new folder on D drive called Program Files is that when you are installing a program it will show the destination as C Program files. so all you have to do is change the C to a D. Sometimes you need to choose custom install to get the destination of the program.